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Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary - The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle (Hardcover)
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Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary - The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle (Hardcover)
Series: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
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Napoleon today is still a figure who fascinates both his admirers
and detractors because of his seminal role in European history at
the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth
centuries, straddling the French Revolution and the enormous empire
that he fashioned through military conquest. Napoleon in the
Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest
writers-poets, novelists, critics, and historians-to the idea of
"Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests
itself in the person and career of Napoleon. After Napoleon's
defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and his subsequent exile to St. Helena,
in much of Europe a re-evaluation of Napoleon's person, stature,
and historical significance occurred, as thinkers and writers
witnessed the gradual reestablishment of repressive regimes
throughout Europe. This re-evaluation in Russia would have to wait
until Napoleon's death in 1821, but when it came to pass, it
continued to occupy the imagination of Russia's greatest writers
for over 130 years. Although Napoleon's invasion of Russia and
subsequent defeat had a profound effect on Russian culture and
Russian history, for Russian writers what was most important was
the universal significance of Napoleon's desire for world conquest
and the idea of unbridled ambition which he embodied. Russian
writers saw this, for good or ill, as potentially determining the
spiritual and moral fate of future generations. What is
particularly fascinating is their attempt to confront each other
about this idea in a creative dialogue, with each succeeding writer
addressing himself and responding to his predecessor and
predecessors.
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